Because it is endlessly entertaining to see the impotent sputtering coming from liberal morons (and it will be hilarious to watch the heads 'sploding when in the end it will come to nothing).

It wasn't really entertaining when far right lunatics and Fox News (but I repeat myself) did this with Obama for eight years, constantly trying to conjure up some personal misconduct scandal, hoping it might stick to him. It was just tiresome and pathetic.
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it is endlessly entertaining to see the impotent sputtering coming from liberal morons (and it will be hilarious to watch the heads 'sploding when in the end it will come to nothing). Trump is good for everyone.

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Step 2: Turn the conversation away from your blatant idiocy and instead claim to have done this deliberately because it is fun to bait Liberals.

That's all it is. No sane person gives a shit if Obama or Trump bowed or curtsied to the king. Who gives a fuck except partisan lunatics?

Yes, Correct - I agree.

The same thing with the first lady wearing a head scarf. When Michelle Obama did not wear one, Trump tweeted about how horrible it was, and other Repubs lost their shit. Now Melania does not wear one and .... apparently it's OK now.

Nobody cares. Or rather, nobody SHOULD care. But one side loses their shit when the "other guys" do it, and suddenly changes their minds later on when they do it.

The same thing with the first lady wearing a head scarf. When Michelle Obama did not wear one, Trump tweeted about how horrible it was, and other Repubs lost their shit. Now Melania does not wear one and .... apparently it's OK now.

Nobody cares. Or rather, nobody SHOULD care. But one side loses their shit when the "other guys" do it, and suddenly changes their minds later on when they do it.

Well then it's a win-win. Because it is endlessly entertaining to see the impotent sputtering coming from liberal morons (and it will be hilarious to watch the heads 'sploding when in the end it will come to nothing). Trump is good for everyone.

I think we can all agree that in the end, no matter how it all resolves, this presidency will come to nothing. And that will indeed be good for everyone.
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I'm sorry that the fact that Trump bowed to the Saudi King bothers you so much. Facts like this that show the hypocrisy of your idols can be troubling and upsetting.

If you need support in emotionally handling these sorts of facts about Trump, like the fact that he rose to political prominence by spreading lies about Obama, then we Dopers would be happy to support you.

This is a big deal, a tremendous deal, believe me when I say that it is a Uuuge deal, the best deal ever made in history! To the American working poor with regards to those hundreds of thousands of jobs? We're shipping those over seas and we're taking away your health insurance. NOW SHUT UP AND GET BACK TO WORK!
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Okrahoma is playing you guys like a fiddle: 1. He's just a troll yanking your chains. He doesn't believe any of the shit he's feeding you, so stop feeding him. 2. He's just the latest sock of the banned handsomeharry.

Meanwhile -- and forgive me again if I've missed this in this thread -- I'm seeing a lot of Trump's former campaign staffers are worried about legal bills stemming from the Russian probe. A lot of low-level White House staffers too. Heh. Screw 'em. That's what they get for sleeping with Satan.
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Well, I for one think it's absolutely charming that Trump made a graceful little curtesy to a foreign Islamic ruler, like a cute little dimpled girl in pigtails and a pinafore. On the other hand, what the fuck was that outfit Melaina had on as she exited the plane? She looked like Ming the Merciless, ruler of the planet Mongo.
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Well, I for one think it's absolutely charming that Trump made a graceful little curtesy to a foreign Islamic ruler, like a cute little dimpled girl in pigtails and a pinafore. On the other hand, what the fuck was that outfit Melaina had on as she exited the plane? She looked like Ming the Merciless, ruler of the planet Mongo.

Well, I for one think it's absolutely charming that Trump made a graceful little curtesy to a foreign Islamic ruler, like a cute little dimpled girl in pigtails and a pinafore. On the other hand, what the fuck was that outfit Melaina had on as she exited the plane? She looked like Ming the Merciless, ruler of the planet Mongo.

Tell me about it. WWE must be looking around for their champion's belt right about now.*

Every time you pick up the phone to tweet, take a breath and put it down. Close your eyes and imagine yourself to be King - a big strong King with ermine robes and a throne of solid gold. Remember, you are the only one that gets a solid gold throne. And you are the only one that can issue royal proclamations. Only you. So proclaim away, but the rules of proclamation say you can only use them to give people you like their own weeks. You can't proclaim anyone to be a showboating nut job. So put down the phone and issue those proclamations, mighty King - just be sure to follow the rules!
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Controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who this week announced he will be joining Donald Trump's administration as assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, plagiarized sections of his 2013 master's thesis on US security, a CNN KFile review has found.

According to guidelines on plagiarism posted on the Naval Postgraduate School's website, "If a passage is quoted verbatim, it must be set off with quotation marks (or, if it is a longer passage, presented as indented text), and followed by a properly formulated citation. The length of the phrase does not matter. If someone else's words are sufficiently significant to be worth quoting, then accurate quotation followed by a correct citation is essential, even if only a few words are involved."

The school's honor code defines plagiarism as "submitting material that in part or whole is not one's own work without proper attribution. Plagiarism is further defined as the use, without giving reasonable and appropriate credit to or acknowledging the author or source, of another person's original work, whether such work is made up of code, formulas, ideas, language, research, strategies, writing or other form(s)."

So we have so far Devos, Melania, Sheriff Clark and others in his cabinet that fit what it is a usual thing seen with con-men. To try to do as many underhanded things so they can have more time to undermine others as they like.

It is like Trump not only got his clue to run for the presidency from the Simpsons, but also from the parody of Mary Poppins from the same show where a "lesson" was to do half-assed efforts that can get you more time to do the stuff that they consider "fun".

So we have so far Devos, Melania, Sheriff Clark and others in his cabinet that fit what it is a usual thing seen with con-men. To try to do as many underhanded things so they can have more time to undermine others as they like.
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In retrospect, the second week of December 2015 is notable: In Moscow’s Metropol Hotel, now-disgraced Trump national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn dined with Putin at a dinner held by Russia Today, a state-sponsored propaganda outlet.
The NRA delegation’s 2015 trip to Russia took place the same week, lasting from Dec. 8-13, according to Clarke’s public financial disclosure forms, (PDF), and included not only the people who met with Rogozin but a number of other NRA dignitaries, including donors Dr. Arnold Goldshlager and Hilary Goldschlager, as well as Jim Liberatore, the CEO of the Outdoor Channel.

I finally saw a clip of the bow/curtsey/dance/thing Trump did. I get that Trump is quite a bit taller than the king and needed to bend down a little. But his little genuflect and bob was just weird. I don't make much out of it other than that Trump doesn't know how to human. But, given his -- and the rest of the right wing hate machine's -- criticism of Obama for bowing, Trump deserves at least three or four news cycles' worth of this playing on constant loop.

Caught parts of Jake Tapper's show on CNN. Couple of idiot GOP Congresscritters saying it's a good thing Trump won't use the phrase "Radical Islamic Terrorism" in today's speech so we don't alienate current and potential allies.
Little kids in refugee camps are potential targets for recruitment unless we get them out and improve their lives.

It just keeps coming AT us

How are we dealing with "the New Normal":

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“Trump years are like dog years,” sighs Peter Sagal. Sagal hosts NPR’s news quiz show, “Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me,” which airs on the weekends but has the misfortune to tape on Thursdays, which, in the current era, is at least six or seven news cycles behind.

“I have been afraid to get on airplanes because I wonder what’s going to have happened by the time I land. It’s like, with the latest news — ”
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Sagal says he feels that the American public has adjusted fairly quickly to this new state of outrage churn. We cannot remember a time Before. We are well equipped. We are prepared. We are lean scandal digesters, able to scarf down the next foible that’s flung in front of us.

“You’ve seen the movie ‘Castaway’?” Sagal says. “There’s that amazing transition in the middle of the movie. In the first half, Tom Hanks finds himself in the middle of the island — he doesn’t know how to survive; he’s totally unprepared. And then there’s a cut, and suddenly it’s four years later. He knows how to hunt, he knows how to fish, he knows how to make rope, and he’s talking to Wilson. And that is the American people right now. We know how to fish and we’re talking to a volleyball.”

The American people are alighting on their own coping mechanisms. The American people are using words like “self care” to justify the need to occasionally turn off CNN and just watch “Tiny House Hunters” marathons on HGTV. ...

Actually, yesterday I left my computer and kindle and watched several episodes of "House Hunters International" to get some relief. Of course, that generates a new kind of outrage ("If you wanted your dishwasher and four-burner range, you should have stayed in the G.D. USA and not moved to Thailand! And yeah, if you want a freakin' doorman, it's going to cost you!")5249

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